The good supervisor: supervising postgraduate and undergraduate research for doctoral theses and dissertations/
Wisker, Gina
The good supervisor: supervising postgraduate and undergraduate research for doctoral theses and dissertations/ Gina Wisker - 2nd ed. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - viii, 568 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - (Palgrave research skills) .
Introduction --
Supervision and research learning: differences and issues --
Supervisors and sustainability: working together in supervisory teams, networks, fora, communities and development programmes --
Establishing and maintaining good supervisory practices --
Defining titles, research questions, conceptual frameworks and developing proposals --
Enabling students to carry out a successful literature review and a theoretical perspectives chapter --
Methodology, methods and ethics --
Supervisory dialogues --
Encouraging good writing --
Helping students to help themselves and each other --
Dealing with difference: working with different kinds of learners and learning styles --
Supervising international and culturally diverse students: cross-cultural issues --
Study and support at a distance for part-time students --
Gender, culture, age and research studies --
A little too close to home: supervising your colleagues and/or other practice/professional-based research --
New ways: supervising creative research work and the PHD by publication --
Maintaining momentum: linking quality and wellbeing --
through transfer, progress reports, changing supervisors, and any difficulties --
Writing up the thesis or dissertation --
quality and standards --
The examination process and examiners --
Supporting students towards a successful PHD --
Supporting your student post viva/exam --
Life after the research project: sharing research, presentations, publications, identifying postgraduate/graduate outcomes, and research capacity building.
9780230246218
Graduate students--Supervision of Dissertations
Faculty advisors
Doctor of philosophy degree
378.194046 / WIS/G
The good supervisor: supervising postgraduate and undergraduate research for doctoral theses and dissertations/ Gina Wisker - 2nd ed. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - viii, 568 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - (Palgrave research skills) .
Introduction --
Supervision and research learning: differences and issues --
Supervisors and sustainability: working together in supervisory teams, networks, fora, communities and development programmes --
Establishing and maintaining good supervisory practices --
Defining titles, research questions, conceptual frameworks and developing proposals --
Enabling students to carry out a successful literature review and a theoretical perspectives chapter --
Methodology, methods and ethics --
Supervisory dialogues --
Encouraging good writing --
Helping students to help themselves and each other --
Dealing with difference: working with different kinds of learners and learning styles --
Supervising international and culturally diverse students: cross-cultural issues --
Study and support at a distance for part-time students --
Gender, culture, age and research studies --
A little too close to home: supervising your colleagues and/or other practice/professional-based research --
New ways: supervising creative research work and the PHD by publication --
Maintaining momentum: linking quality and wellbeing --
through transfer, progress reports, changing supervisors, and any difficulties --
Writing up the thesis or dissertation --
quality and standards --
The examination process and examiners --
Supporting students towards a successful PHD --
Supporting your student post viva/exam --
Life after the research project: sharing research, presentations, publications, identifying postgraduate/graduate outcomes, and research capacity building.
9780230246218
Graduate students--Supervision of Dissertations
Faculty advisors
Doctor of philosophy degree
378.194046 / WIS/G